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US telecommunications equipment maker CommScope will acquire Arris, in a $7.4B deal valued at $5.69 billion, with the difference comprised of CommScope’s assumption of Arris’s debt. As part of the deal, the Carlyle Group will make a $1M equity investment in CommScope for an approximate 16% stake in the new company.
CommScope’s CEO Eddie Edwards has claimed the two companies’ product lines are complementary, and that the combined company will “enable end-to-end wired and wireless communications infrastructure solutions that neither company could otherwise achieve on its own.”
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2019.

Apple is to buy Beats Electronics for $3 billion, which is not only the largest acquisition in the Cupertino-based company’s history, but also its most high-profile strategic investment to date. The deal comes after handset competitor HTC recently sold the remaining half of its $309 million, 50.1% controlling interest of Beats back to the company for $265 million in September 2013.

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